BOSTON — Federal prosecutors asked the court Thursday to allow criminal background checks on potential jurors in the racketeering trial of reput...

BOSTON, May 2 (Reuters) - A federal judge has rejected accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's plan to argue before a jury that he could not be pros...

BOSTON -- Reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger kept his end of a bargain to cooperate with the government in exchange for immunity from feder...

BOSTON -- Reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger will ask his new trial judge to overturn a previous judge's ruling barring him from using his claim o...

BOSTON — The judge who was set to preside over the trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was removed from the case Thursday by a feder...

BOSTON — A claim by a lawyer for gangster James "Whitey" Bulger that his client was never an FBI informant is a tactic to influence jurors in th...

Outside the courthouse, Carney denied that Bulger was even an informant for the government! How can that be true when evidence exists that Bulger helped the Feds take down the Italian mob in the North End, which paved the way for his criminal empire?

BOSTON -- Former mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's claim that a federal prosecutor gave him immunity to commit crimes should be decided by a jury, not a...

BOSTON — A lawyer for mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on Tuesday framed an attempt to get the presiding judge kicked off his client's murder case ...

BOSTON -- Lawyers for former mobster James "Whitey" Bulger have asked a federal appeals court to order the judge scheduled to preside over his murder ...

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to force Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger to produce proof that he was awarded immunity by ...

BOSTON -- Lawyers for Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger asked a judge Friday to delay his trial by eight months. Bulger, the former leader of the ...

BOSTON -- Prosecutors have accused a lawyer for Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger of trying to "color the facts" and influence potential jurors in ...

BOSTON — Former Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger will take the stand in his own defense when he goes on trial next year on charges that he p...

BOSTON -- A federal judge on Tuesday refused to recuse himself from the trial of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, flatly rejecting a challenge to his im...

BOSTON — The attorney for James "Whitey" Bulger said Monday that the former Boston mob boss and one-time FBI informant shouldn't be prosecuted i...

BOSTON — A lawyer for mobster James "Whitey" Bulger filed a motion Wednesday night formally asking a judge to delay the start of Bulger's trial ...

BOSTON -- Federal prosecutors are trying to freeze the assets of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's girlfriend to cover any fine she may be ordered to pa...

BOSTON -- A federal judge has granted a request from the longtime girlfriend of former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger to delay the start of h...

BOSTON — Former crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has begun answering to charges that he participated in 19 murders and a host of other crimes ra...